1. World Nuclear News – South Korea’s newest nuclear power reactor has entered commercial operation. The country now has 22 nuclear units that together supply about one third of its electricity. Construction work started in January 2007, and in January this year it was synchronised to the grid to produce its first power. Shin-Kori 2 …
China is considering a 100 PetaFLOP Super Computing Center in Chongqing. The proposed design would use the “Dawn-7000″ high-performance computer design. The article at Chinatechgadget does not give a clear indication that this project has been fully funded. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian …
On July 3, Hunan Hengyang city government with CNNC signed a project cooperation agreement of intent to jointly promote the the Hengyang ACP100 small PWR (Pressurized Water Reactor) Project. In late 2011, the budget for two ACP100 modular reactors was allocated. The first ACP100 reactor will start construction at the end of 2013 in Putian, …
The IMF provided a regular update to its World Economic Outlook (WEO). The latest World Economic Outlook projects that the global economy will grow 3.5 percent this year, down 0.1 percentage points from the April forecast, and 3.9 percent in 2013, 0.2 percentage points lower. “More worrisome than these revisions to the baseline forecast is …
Tel Aviv University – Working with carbon molecules called C60 (buckyballs), Mentovich has successfully built a sophisticated memory transistor that can both transfer and store energy, eliminating the need for a capacitor. This molecular memory transistor, which can be as small as one nanometer, stores and disseminates information at high speed — and it’s ready …
There are approximately 1500 asteroids that are close to the earth and relatively easy to access. These asteroids contain substantial quantities of water, as well as precious metals such as platinum. The company Planetary Resources has been operating since 2010 with the primary mission of exploiting these asteroids natural resources. Planetary Resources believes that a …
Rejuvenation Research Journal – Dissecting Mammalian Target of Rapamycin to Promote Longevity Treatment with rapamycin, an inhibitor of mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) can increase mammalian life span. However, extended treatment with rapamycin results in increased hepatic gluconeogenesis concomitant with glucose and insulin insensitivity through inhibition of mTOR complex 2 (C2). Genetic studies …
Stanford researchers have invented an electrically conductive gel that is quick and easy to make, can be patterned onto surfaces with an inkjet printer and demonstrates unprecedented electrical performance. The Jell-O-like material may have applications in areas as widespread as energy storage, medical sensors and biofuel cells. It is a kind of conducting hydrogel – …
The Stanford team has created an ultrafast nickel-iron battery that can be fully charged in about 2 minutes and discharged in less than 30 seconds. The team managed to increase the charging and discharging rate by nearly 1,000 times. Edison created the nickel-iron battery as an inexpensive alternative to corrosive lead-acid batteries. Its basic design …
1. Ubuntulife – The Samsung Galaxy S3 features a quad-core Exynos 4212 processor clocked at 1.4GHz per core. This chip is based on the ARM Cortex A9 processor architecture, but tweaked and manufactured by Samsung internally. Preliminary benchmarks shows that the Exynos 4212 is the fastest smartphone processor in the world, leaving its main competitors, …
1. ZDNet – Researchers working at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) in Barcelona have built a super-sensitive photodetector by combining graphene with semiconducting quantum dots that outperforms other graphene based devices by a billion times. This is a follow up on an article from the middle of May. Speaking to PhysicsWorld , lead researcher …